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Well, the video is cranky and unclear but apparently its pretty long, wavy from side to side AND up and down so its very strange.
Have they found the ladders to go with it yet :-) Sorry... yer gotta laugh or we'd be crying all the time.

Have changed the news entry to read The Rotherwas Serpent as that seems like the name that's going to stick. p0ds has also added this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/image_galleries/rotherwas_ribbon_gallery.shtml?7 that has a nice pic attached.

It wasn't disvovered early enough - so does that mean lots of stuff isn't found early enough, on account of the level of investigation is limited? 'Spose so. Its a money thing.

So it sits there for 3,000 years. Then its found. So the great unwashed get a fleeting chance of a quick Saturday afternoon look, except they don't, but they might get a weekday if they're lucky. Then its covered up again for another few hundred years as access to an industrial estate is urgently required. And it doesn't matter how important or unique it is.

Nope, doesn't matter at all to the developers and money-makers how important or unique it is. Full stop, and us great unwashed are just a bunch of pagans, scallywags and trouble makers - but you already knew that ;-)

Oh crumbs, what about this:

"Herefordshire Green Councillor Gerald Dawe, whose constituency includes the now world-famous 'Rotherwas Ribbon', found through excavations for what is known locally as the "Rotherwas cul-de-sac", is appalled that the first he knew of this historic find was on Radio 4 yesterday.

He has asked Council officials if English Heritage knew and when, how long the importance of the site has been known, which councillors did know about it and when, and who has made the decision to concrete over the find and keep this decision secret from both public and elected representatives."